More than any other time in modern history, today people are significantly more likely to know (or be) lesbian, gay, and transgender (LGT) people; however, prejudices directed toward these groups remain. In the current study, we explore how social contact and social distancing/desired social contact are related to LGT prejudices using Worthen’s (2012) Attitudes toward LGT People Scales and data from four heterosexual college student samples in Oklahoma, Texas, Italy, and Spain (N = 1,217). In doing so we provide the first ever study to explore Allport’s (1954) contact hypothesis as it relates to transgender prejudices in Italy and Spain and the first study to examine desired social contact/social distancing and transgender prejudice in the U.S., Italy, and Spain. Our findings demonstrate that measures of desired social contact are strongly related to cross-cultural LGT attitudes while simple measures of contact (i.e., knowing an LGT person) are significantly less robust.

Social contact, social distancing, and attitudes toward LGT Individuals: a cross-cultural study of college students in the United States, Italy, and Spain / Worthen, Meredith G. F.; Tanzilli, Annalisa; Caristo, Chiara; Lingiardi, Vittorio. - In: JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY. - ISSN 0091-8369. - STAMPA. - 66:13(2019), pp. 1882-1908.

Social contact, social distancing, and attitudes toward LGT Individuals: a cross-cultural study of college students in the United States, Italy, and Spain

Annalisa Tanzilli;Chiara Caristo;Vittorio Lingiardi
2019

Abstract

More than any other time in modern history, today people are significantly more likely to know (or be) lesbian, gay, and transgender (LGT) people; however, prejudices directed toward these groups remain. In the current study, we explore how social contact and social distancing/desired social contact are related to LGT prejudices using Worthen’s (2012) Attitudes toward LGT People Scales and data from four heterosexual college student samples in Oklahoma, Texas, Italy, and Spain (N = 1,217). In doing so we provide the first ever study to explore Allport’s (1954) contact hypothesis as it relates to transgender prejudices in Italy and Spain and the first study to examine desired social contact/social distancing and transgender prejudice in the U.S., Italy, and Spain. Our findings demonstrate that measures of desired social contact are strongly related to cross-cultural LGT attitudes while simple measures of contact (i.e., knowing an LGT person) are significantly less robust.
2019
Lesbian; gay; transgender; prejudice; attitudes; contact hypothesis; social distancing; United States; Italy; Spain; Texas; Oklahoma
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Social contact, social distancing, and attitudes toward LGT Individuals: a cross-cultural study of college students in the United States, Italy, and Spain / Worthen, Meredith G. F.; Tanzilli, Annalisa; Caristo, Chiara; Lingiardi, Vittorio. - In: JOURNAL OF HOMOSEXUALITY. - ISSN 0091-8369. - STAMPA. - 66:13(2019), pp. 1882-1908.
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